Chicago Considers Chicken Ban. No mention of corn flakes.

[ohiosmith]

Chicago May Ban Chickens As Feathered Pets' Gain Popularity Among Young Professionals


A pair of chickens, Papoo, right, and Chalmers, owned by Kim and Zach Jackson are seen in the back of their house on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007, in Chicago.

CHICAGO Dec 12, 2007 (AP)

The City Council is poised to send a message to residents: We don't want your clucking chickens.

Coming up for a vote Wednesday is a proposal to ban chickens, a former barnyard denizen that is pecking its way into cities across the country as part of a growing organic food trend among young professionals and other urban dwellers.

Chicken lovers say the birds make great pets, don't take up much backyard space and provide tasty, nutritious eggs.

Cities including Madison, Wis., and Kent, Wash., have passed ordinances allowing people to keep chickens. In Ann Arbor, Mich., a councilman says he plans to introduce a resolution to allow hens to be kept for eggs, and the Board of Zoning Appeals in the upscale Indianapolis suburb of Carmel recently approved an exception to city rules to allow a family to keep three hens in their backyard.

more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3987318

[lost-in-nj]

1. OMG

We don't want your clucking chickens......


omg

this phrase comes to mind.....

We don't need no stinken chickens


LOL


lost

[flvegan]

2. This is too bad.

I mean, if you're going to eat eggs, have a couple chickens if you have the yard for it. They aren't terribly noisy, they're easily contained/kept. It's cheaper than buying humane eggs, and it's that little less demand for battery hen eggs.

[xmas74]

7. It's not just cities banning chickens.

There is a very small town (population 120) about 15 miles from my town. A large family that has lived in the town for generations has always had a rather small hen house in their backyard. Recently the town passed an ordinance banning chickens from being kept in the city limits, either as pets or livestock.

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. As the cost of living in the US increases, more people should look to such things...

[sasquatch]

4. Break out the cornflake breading for Chicago everybody

EAT IT CHICAGO!!

:P

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. I used to see chickens in Pilsen and Bucktown.

One family down the street had a rooster that crowed in the morning for about six weeks, then fell silent. He must've made a nice Sunday dinner.

One winter night I was walking in falling snow. The only tracks on the sidewalk were chicken tracks leading from that same house all the way down the block. I had to tell the family one of their birds busted out.

[redqueen]

6. ZOMG! Those chickens-as-pets-having-people are going to give us all TEH BIRD FLU!

[ohiosmith]

8. Corn flakes cure bird flu. Look it up.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Personally, after having a couple of chickens wander into our yard for a week or so

I don't want them. The rooster woke us up at 4:30am every morning, they left delightful 'presents' everywhere we stepped and I couldn't stop worrying about the foxes and coyotes getting them.

More power to those who want them but I am just not a farmer at heart. LOL

[ohiosmith]

10. wandering chickens = dinner

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Ehm.. No. There is no way I can take and ax to a critter and then clean it. I don't

have the stomach for it. :puke:

As I said, I am not a farmer at heart. LOL